Welcome to our lab!
We are located on the main campus of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC). Check Photos for TTU/TTUHSC, the second largest contiguous campus (1,900 acres) in the U.S.
We are recruiting trainees in
bioinformatics and computational genomics to join our new lab. Click Postdoctoral Fellows and Graduate Students for details. To apply,
please send CV to Dr. Dawei Li: dllab.bioinformatics@gmail.com.
Our Omics Research
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) statistics and facts
- ~20 million worldwide
- 1–2.5 million and costs $17–24 billion/yr in the USA alone
- More common than multiple sclerosis, lung cancer or AIDS: twice as common as multiple sclerosis
- No diagnostic test
- No FDA-approved treatments
- No cure
Addiction One in every four people has one brain behavioral diagnosis in their lifetime. Our goal is to use brain behavioral disease phenome and omics data to identify new risk factors that has the potential for prevention and new treatment.
High-throughput sequencing analyses We
perform various standard deep sequencing analyses, including
SNP-disease association, DNA methylation, differential gene expression
and other analyses.
Mosaic viral integrations in blood/brain genomes We
will continue to develop bioinformatics platforms for genotyping
endogenous retroviruses and other transposable elements, and mosaic
“non-human-sequence” insertions using long reads and single-cell
sequencing, and ultra-deep sequencing.
Translational medicine We are also interested to transition our research towards personalized genomics and medicine.
Lab News
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Events |
2024 Jan | New PhD student joined our lab. Welcome! | | | 2023 Dec | Dawei was invited to the CDC Stakeholder Engagement and Communication Call. Recorded video coming soon on the CDC website (www.cdc.gov/me-cfs/programs/meetings.html) . | | | 2023 Dec | Tom was invited by the NIH with scholarship to present his work on the NIH's main campus in DC/Bethesda! | | | 2023 Sep | New postdoc Tom joined our laboratory from University of Florida. Welcome Tom! | | |
2023 Jul |
Dawei joined the faculty of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC). We start our
new laboratory on the TTUHSC main campus in Lubbock Texas. |
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Support
We thank patients, care givers and all other research participants as well as funding agencies for supporting our research.
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